organization:social justice coalition

People’s Power | The Khayelitsha Commission of Inquiry
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he35ffrgRJE

The Khayelitsha Commission was the outcome of over a decade of struggles on safety and justice.

The Commission itself was a truly ground-breaking moment. For the first time in South Africa many of the inner workings of the police were made public as tens of thousands of pages of SAPS information was made available. It offered the opportunity for residents to tell their stories and senior officers had to account to the public.

“People’s Power” tells this story from the eyes of the activists and community members who fought, and continue to fight, for a safer and more just society.

Produced by @chronicle.digitalZA for the Social Justice Coalition.

#film #documentaire #bidonvilles #inégalités #apartheid #afrique_du_sud #logement #urban_matter

Solidarité avec SJC qui passe aujourd’hui en procès pour avoir réclamé des #toilettes à Khayelitsha
►http://visionscarto.net/khayelitsha-eau-orage-toilettes

SJC Press Alert: WE ADMIT TO THE FACTS BUT WE ARE NOT CRIMINALS « Social Justice Coalition
▻http://www.sjc.org.za/posts/sjc-press-alert-we-admit-to-the-facts-but-we-are-not-criminals

Today, twenty-one SJC leaders and supporters stand trial at the Cape Town Magistrates’ Court, following an act of non-violent civil disobedience on 11 September 2013. On that day, we chained ourselves to the railings outside the office of Mayor De Lille and were arrested, detained and charged with contravening the Regulation of Gatherings Act by convening and attending an illegal gathering.

This case is about the struggle for decent sanitation and the constitutional right to peaceful protest. We admit the facts and challenge the constitutionality of the Regulation of Gatherings Act.
(...) the constitution guarantees everyone the right to assemble peacefully. Receiving a criminal record for ‘attending’ or ‘convening’ a peaceful gathering of more than 15 people is unconstitutional.

(...) We demand that the Mayor now develops a plan for dignified, clean, and secure sanitation.

We believe government must change the Apartheid laws which infringe the right to peaceful assembly.

Des nouvelles de la #lutte pour des #services_publics décents dans les #bidonvilles de Cape Town « Social Justice Coalition
▻http://www.sjc.org.za/posts/social-justice-coalition-press-alert-city-commits-to-development-of-implemen

While the summit was marked by heated disagreements, the SJC welcomes the City’s renewed commitment – made at the end of the summit, and again this week by Councillor Ernest Sonnenberg, Mayco member for Utility Services – to develop, with the assistance of an advisory committee, a formal and detailed Implementation plan for the janitorial service.

#afrique_du_sud

Hundreds March For Improved Sanitation In Cape Town « Social Justice Coalition
▻http://www.sjc.org.za/posts/memorandum-on-sanitation-in-cape-towns-informal-settlements

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On 25 June 2013 more than three hundred Khayelitsha residents from the SJC and partner organisations marched peacefully through the streets of Cape Town to demand safe and dignified sanitation for all. A memorandum was first delivered to the South African Human Rights Commission – which is currently investigating the SJC’s complaint regarding outsourced services

#toilettes #santé #afrique_du_sud

Makana, Mandela, Marikana — endings and beginnings | Charlene Smith
►http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/charlenesmith/2012/08/20/makana-mandela-marikana-endings-and-beginnings

At Marikana we saw the product of a fat and lazy cabinet. At Marikana: in those policemen we saw the result of two corrupt commissioners of police — one of whom was recently released early from jail. Our police are poorly trained, badly equipped, and scared. We saw in Lonmin the sort of uncaring corporate bullying that we see with the banks. And among the miners we saw the desperation the poor experience, we saw in their violence the futile rage that unless South Africans wake up and start pushing for social justice — that rage will sweep across the nation.

#répression #apartheid #afrique_du_sud (ça clashe aussi dans le forum)